Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third time since Pearl Harbor, reporters last week were not permitted to tell the U.S. where the President was nor what he was doing. The President had wrapped himself in wartime secrecy. At each press conference he still greeted the reporters with the remark that he had no news today-but now he meant it. He had made no report to the nation on the state of the war since his message to Congress on Jan. 5, would not speak to the U.S. again until Feb. 23. But he worked. The President...
...Wilkie, "the heroism of the Asiatics will not be judged by the need of some city restaurants to close down when their staffs walked out because inadequate shelters were provided. It will be judged by the type of Chinese transport drivers who carried on throughout the blitz, evoking the remark from an Australian officer supervising them: 'If I want the most efficiency in Singapore I will go first to the Scotsmen and then to the Chinese...
Both Lowell House and the Union were invaded by hungry students carrying suggestive milk bottles purchased on "the outside." Hostesses were heard to remark, "Why can those boys be carrying milk bottles...
...famous swimming coach was once heard to remark that "it is not the first places that win a swimming meet; it is the accumulation of seconds and thirds that usually do the job." This afternoon's meet will probably prove this statement--perhaps, very much to the Crimson's detriment...
...What to do when bomb falls: Remark sagely, "Well, well, look who dropped...